To the right honorable, the right worshipful, and the reverend, the lords, knights, gentlemen, and clergy, of the diocess and county of Worcester; the humble proposal of a native of that county, in the behalf of ingenious young scholars, that have a serious desire to be educated in good literature. Good, Thomas, 1609-1678. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A41389 of text R213803 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing G1031). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A41389 Wing G1031 ESTC R213803 99826076 99826076 30468 2240902781

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A41389) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 30468) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1760:5) To the right honorable, the right worshipful, and the reverend, the lords, knights, gentlemen, and clergy, of the diocess and county of Worcester; the humble proposal of a native of that county, in the behalf of ingenious young scholars, that have a serious desire to be educated in good literature. Good, Thomas, 1609-1678. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed by Leonard Lichfield, [Oxford : 1675] Imprint from Wing. Signed at end: Tho. Good, D.D. Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Worcester (England) -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 16601685 -- Early works to 1800. eebo To the right honorable, the right worshipful, and the reverend, the lords, knights, gentlemen, and clergy, of the diocess and county of Worcester; the Good, Thomas, 1675 2 456 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2003-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2003-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-07 Sampled and proofread 2003-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Right Honorable , the Right Worshipful , and the Reverend , the Lords , Knights , Gentlemen , and Clergy , of the Diocess and County of Worcester ; The humble proposal of a Native of that County , in the behalf of Ingenious Young Scholars , that have a serious desire to be Educated in good Literature . Rgiht Honble , Worship ful , and Rever d.

I HAVE had many sad thoughts concerning the unhappiness of my Native Country ; really very unhappy in this ; that whereas almost all Counties in England and Wales have convenient Maintenance allotted for the Education of young Students in one of the two Famous Vniversities of Oxford or Cambridge ; Worcester-shire is altogether destitute of any considerable Encouragement for Ingenious Scholars ; whereby many that have had parts worthy of higher employment , have been condemn'd to inferiour Callings ; and others who might have been eminent in their generation , 2 Sam 10.5 . have been snatch'd away from those famous Nurseries unto poor Country Curacy's before their Beards were grown ; Canon . 74. where their lean and scandalous Sallaries have scarely afforded them a short Canonical Coat to cover their nakedness ; which is a great reason ( if not the only one ) why our County has not been so happy as others in many eminent Divines , Lawyers , or Physitians of Worcester-shire extraction .

Truly Right Honourable , Worshipfull and Reverend 't is some reproach to the memory of your worthy Auncestors , that our Country is more unfortunate in this particular then almost any other in the whole Kingdome , for 't is an evident demonstration that there has been a great scarcity of such noble and publick spirits as in other Counties have been a blessing to the respective places of their Nativity , by their Liberal Munificence for the Education of ingenious youth .

May it please your Honours , and you Right worshipfull and Reverend to take the premises into your serious consideration , and to consult together about the setling of two , or more Fellowships and Scholarships in Baliol Colledge , ( commonly known by the name of the Worcester Colledge ) for the Education of young Schollars , of that County : In so doing your Memories will be pretious in after ages , which will have just reason to celebrate your praises , and to bless Almighty God for such truly noble Benefactors and Patriots .

Oxon Febr. ( 16 ) 1674. Right Honble , Worship ful , and Reverd , Your very humble Servant , THO. GOOD ▪ D.D. Master of Baliol Coll.
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